Acting
Robert Shayne
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Shayne (October 4, 1900 – November 29, 1992), born Robert Shaen Dawe, was an American actor whose career lasted for over 60 years. He was best known for portraying Inspector Bill Henderson in the American television series Adventures of Superman. Shayne became an actor after having worked as a reporter at the Illustrated Daily Tab in Miami, Florida. His initial acting experience came with repertory companies in Alabama, including the Birmingham Players. Shayne's first Broadway appearance came by 1931 in The Rap. His other Broadway shows include Yellow Jack (1934), The Cat and the Canary (1935), Whiteoaks (1938), with Ethel Barrymore, and Without Love (1942), with Katharine Hepburn. Shayne began his film career in 1934, appearing in two features. In 1942, he became a contract actor with Warner Bros.. He played many character roles in movies and television, including a film series of Warner Bros. featurettes called the "Santa Fe Trail" series such as Wagon Wheels West, and as a mad scientist in the 1953 horror film The Neanderthal Man. He appears briefly in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, seated at a booth in a hotel bar, where his character meets Cary Grant's character, just as the latter is about to be kidnapped. He also had a small but pivotal role in the 1953 sci-fi classic Invaders From Mars as a scientist. He also enjoyed a brief rebirth in his career when he was cast as the blind newspaper vendor in The Flash television show. He was by this time actually blind and learned his lines by having his wife read them to him and then rehearse until he memorized them. Shayne portrayed Police Inspector William "Bill" Henderson on the 1950s TV series Adventures of Superman. He appeared sporadically in the early episodes of the series, in part because he came under HUAC scrutiny and was briefly blacklisted on unproven and unspecific charges of association with Communism. As the program evolved, especially in the color episodes, he was brought into more and more of them, to the point where he was a regular on the series.
Movies with Robert Shayne
North by Northwest
1959
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Mr. Skeffington
1944
Double Jeopardy
1955
Missing Women
1951
The Giant Claw
1957
From the Terrace
1960
Federal Man
1950
Invaders from Mars
1953
Son of Flubber
1963
Teenage Cave Man
1958
Welcome Stranger
1947
The Blue Gardenia
1953
The Naked Monster
2005
The Million Dollar Duck
1971
Loaded Pistols
1948
Kronos
1957
Hollywood Canteen
1944
Three Strangers
1946
The Barefoot Executive
1971
Christmas in Connecticut
1945
Wife Wanted
1946
Indestructible Man
1956
How to Make a Monster
1958
Winning
1969
War of the Satellites
1958
The Inside Story
1948
Shaggy
1948
The Priest Killer
1971
San Antonio
1945
Criminal Lawyer
1951
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
1960
Mr. Walkie Talkie
1952
Hot Shots
1956
Mission to Moscow
1943
I, Mobster
1959
Prince of Pirates
1953
The Four Deuces
1975
The Threat
1949
The Desperado
1954
Nobody Lives Forever
1946
Dance with Me, Henry
1956
Indian Uprising
1952
The Ring
1952
Dynamite Pass
1950
Frontier Days
1945
A Tiger Walks
1964
Shine on Harvest Moon
1944
Cool Breeze
1972
Behind the Mask
1946
Runaway Girl
1965
I Won't Play
1944
Wagon Wheels West
1943
Murder Is My Beat
1955
King of the Carnival
1955
The Rebel Set
1959
The Specialist
1975
The Neanderthal Man
1953
Rumble on the Docks
1956
The Face of Marble
1946
Without Warning!
1952
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947
Flight Nurse
1953
Experiment Alcatraz
1950
Make Your Own Bed
1944
Rider from Tucson
1950
Backlash
1947
Wednesday's Child
1934
Roaring Guns
1944
Death in Small Doses
1957
Oklahoma Outlaws
1943
Footsteps in the Night
1957
Superman and Scotland Yard
1954
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
1974
The Dakota Kid
1951
Trial by Trigger
1944
Let's Live a Little
1948
Cage of Evil
1960
The Swordsman
1948
I Cover Big Town
1947
Spook Chasers
1957
Superman's Peril
1954
Marshal of Cedar Rock
1953
Trader Tom of the China Seas
1954
The Gentleman Tramp
1976
20,000 Eyes
1961
State Penitentiary
1950
Big Timber
1950
Why Must I Die
1960
The Strange Mrs. Crane
1948
Forgotten Women
1949
Superman and the Jungle Devil
1954
Keep 'Em Rolling
1934
Customs Agent
1950
Law of the Badlands
1945
Superman in Exile
1954
Valley of the Redwoods
1960
Best Man Wins
1948
I Ring Doorbells
1946
The Spirit of West Point
1947
When You're Smiling
1950
Eyes of the Jungle
1953
Superman Flies Again
1954
Behind Southern Lines
1952
Gun to Gun
1944
TV Shows with Robert Shayne
Columbo
1971
Ironside
1967
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Emergency!
1972
Petticoat Junction
1963
The Millionaire
1955
Hazel
1961
Surfside 6
1960
The Flash
1990
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Land of the Giants
1968
Adventures of Superman
1952
Freddy's Nightmares
1988
Navy Log
1955
The Doris Day Show
1968
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
The Third Man
1959
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
26 Men
1957
Sheena: Queen of the Jungle
1955
Stories of the Century
1954
Blondie
1968
The Living Christ
1951